At the professional level in almost any event, the word sport is used purely to define its origins. Other than that it’s meaningless and indeed deliberately misleading.

Where money is concerned nothing is left to chance and certainly not to the Corinthian spirit of fairness and open competition. What a naive concept that would be when vast sums of advertising, sponsorship and prize money is at stake.

Marketing men and investors can tell us what they like in an effort to convince us that their particular ‘sport’ is clean and wholesome and contains strict rules and regulation controlled by world bodies but we all know that it’s likely to be grubby, riven with corruption, cheating and dirty dealing much of which is controlled and indeed supported by those supposedly overseeing the ‘sport’.

Why does the media not just tell it as it is? Well, I suppose it’s… Read more